By Staff Reporter
Friday, 19 July, was a busy day for Kingswood College, with Mandela Day activities in the senior school.
“We actually call it our termly ‘Make a Difference Day’,” the college says in a statement.
The entire senior school and staff head out to various projects from playing music to the elderly, singing to children at Lebone Centre, painting dorms in the orphanages and creches, soup kitchens with some of the 1st team rugby payers, kitting beanies, cleaning up litter, doing gardens at the local hospitals and APD Clinic, cricket, hockey and soccer clinics with local schools, walking animals at the SPCA, to name just a few.
It is a mammoth task to co-ordinate the whole school to go out into the community but this is thanks to the academic head, Tracy van Molendorff, who co-ordinated everything. Here are some photographs from the Home of Joy orphanage, the soup kitchen in Hoogenoeg and the hockey kit handover to local schools. The day before, the official Mandela Day, it was the turn of the Kingswood juniors to reach out to the community. In these pictures, grade 7s can be seen sharing sarmies and playing at George Dickerson Primary School while grade 6s took time to read to grade Rs at Oatlands.
